That was a great story and Rusty-James was a very good friend to let him do that. I think they would make a good couple though.

Autumn chapter 1 . 1/25/2013

That was WAY unrealistic. I doubt Stev would make out with Rusty-James and even if he did, Rusty-James would have beat him to being unrecognizable. Also, not a lot of detail. If I was to grade you on this, you'd get a D-

Amazing work! I recently fell in love with Rumble Fish and was so exicted to see a Section for it only to find a few fics. This story is great and makes up for the lack of other amazing stories! I love Steve and Rusty-James still seem in character during slash although Steve does seem like one to try being gay. Love it. :)

I usually do not enjoy reading fanfics where the author turns a main character gay. But...It sort of matched Steve. He seemed so afraid in a way.. I am glad you kept Rusty-James sticking to girls. He isn't a man's man. lol.

I actually found this while trying to find my rumble fish fan fic. I didn't know there were so few of them. We are two of the...like, ten...on this entire website with a fan fic for the spectacular book. :)

Hurray for a wonderfully written Rumble Fish story and especially for a spectacular depiction of canon Rusty-James and Steve. Even with the slash moments, these two were still in character. I liked how the kissing exchange didn't transform these two friends into lifetime lovers (I'm sure much to the dismay of slash-fangirls out there). Great work.

wow, i love it. nuthin like hot guys a'kissin. i almost think it's better, in some ways, than hot boy sex.

and you did it pretty well, imo. admittedly, i haven't read rumble fish, yet, so i'm not familiar with the canon. but, sometimes, you can just tell if something is good or not, whether or not you know the fandom, and i know that this is good.

Nice job, and it's good tha is in character and you made the *ahem* "relationship" work out.

Steve wished he could be like that, so damn innocent he didn’t know anything except how to fight and how to just be a good guy. But no, he had to be cursed, like the Motorcycle Boy was, with the kind of intelligence that would take him beyond the borders of this stagnant backwater northern suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Ah - so deep. So true. And it's very bittersweet, but I like that you realized that Steve had a lot more going on than Rusty James knew. You read between the lines. :3